Discusses various issues connected with adoption, such as the meaning of adoption, the reasons why birthparents give up a child, and the search for birthparents.
Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold, but fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.
Atlanta journalist Melissa Fay Greene shares how her and her husband, a criminal defense attorney, adopted five children, one from Bulgaria and four from Ethiopia, and raised them with their four biological children.
Daria Cato, having found an abandoned newborn twenty years ago on the beachside that was adopted by her family, finds her life and community unsettled by television producer and childhood friend Rory Taylor's questions about her sister's birth which bring to light secrets from that summer.
Photographs and simple text address some of the questions children often have about why they were adopted, why their birth parents gave them up, where they were born, and the day they came home.
